Miokovic Dejan art instruction

I was very fortunate to learn some better skills from Serbian Master of the Oil Painting, Miokovic Dejan.  He developed an excellent technique through years of practice in solitude, so that he has develooped a system for how to use his materials and efficiently work on a painting to produce the desired result.  With his permission, some of his works can be seen in this page, as I articulate my appreciation, gratitude and intention of sharing his art with the public.

 The following photographs are from Miokovic Dejan's painting,

"The Muses of Goethe":

Serbian Artist Miokovic Dejan authorized this presentation.

Finding a good art teacher is not guaranteed in the experience of people searching for their own aesthetic ideal.  In my search for good masters of the arts, I found several great drawing and scullpture teachers, but painting teachers seemed scarce. The art schools have professors teaching art, but very seldom those teachers really know how to pass on a skill to the student. 

On each academic semester, the art schools get crowded by students who have to work under time pressure when they know they only have eight semesters to pay for a limited number of courses. Four years later, the students migrate out of the art school often not knowing the true and deep nature of the skill they try to develop. In a way, art studies don't make sense when seen from that perspective, and people waste a lot of time and money trying to find the good instruction in the art schools that factually is not offered.

Art teachers who have mastered their skills and are willing to offer the one on one time to convey those skills, do not abound. Much too often, the artists who work as art teachers in the art schools are not familiar with the classical techniques that some students would like to learn. Many art teachers don't know what to teach, because they haven't learned from good masters themselves. I painted like drawing, using lines and flat spaces, because I did have good drawing instructors in the art school. But, I did not really know how to use the classical techniques for painting, because they weren't taught in the art schools that I visited. 

Until I learned from Miokovic, my way of painting was a form of self-discovery and self teaching, also by looking at books with classical painters. Sometimes it was very disappointing to have to start a work again and again, because I had not learned the right techniques from the beginning.  I kept painting spontaneously, until through the ways of serendipity, I found a blessing:  I discovered Serbian Master of the Oil Painting, Miokovic Dejan.  Not only he had developed an excellent technique, knows well how to use his materials and how to efficiently work on a painting to produce the desired result., but above all of these qualities transpired a generosity and friendliness that invited me to ask him many questions about the magics of the oil painting. 

Differently from the stressful mantra that is repeated by instructors working under pressure,  often people who do not really  know how to teach the serious techniques that should be taught in the art schools, Serbian artist Miokovic Dejan encourages the learner to struggle betterment in the painting process, to have first of all a vision, then patience and ultimately the endurance to make the dream become real. He directs the student's attention to think carefully about each work, so that it may be conceived and realized to last a long time. He keeps reminding his students not to fall under the stress of finishing works fast that will only reach some level of mediocrity.  I learned how to organize the working time, how to use the art supplies. We spent hours and hours talking about the preparation of a canvas, not only through the application of the right materials, but also through the completion of the drawing in the underpainting.

Miokovic teaches of the struggle for the pursuit of Beauty and not to worry about superficial arguments. His approach is at all times that one should only expect the best result and work hard to accomplish it, one painting at a time.  His very professional attitude for the art has impressed me for life.  With his permission, I have shared a few of his works in this page.  I explicitly articulate my appreciation, gratitude and intention of bettering the society and culture through giving the arts as the best accomplishment, meant to last for a long time to come.